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Thursday, June 28, 2012

El Sereno Marine ~ Asparagus/Mushrooms/Rice/Peas/Chicken!

Good 47º clear morning.

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Ok, so the story Brian relayed to me... He has a new client at his Grants
Pass Oregon State Farm office... a Clifford Gates. He is a young 90 year old.
Told Brian about joining the Navy when Pearl Harbor was bombed. After a short
time his commander called him in and said he was being written up, along with
several others, for 'insubordination' and was being sent to the Marine Corps!
(Ha ha ha... a shortage of Jar Heads so they called on the Squids!) Well, Cliff
ended up on Iwo Jima and got photos of the Marines when the US flag was
raised.

And he has pictures of him in his dress blues and Brian said he was quite
the good looking Marine! Then they talked about Cliff's home town............ El
Sereno! OMG. He graduated from Wilson High in 1940. (the school was built in
1937 ..... I graduated in '63 and my sister Marion in '54... oldest sister was
too good for Wilson and graduated from So. Pas HS in about 1946!)

Cliff's dad was in construction and built the Masonic Lodge there on
Huntington Drive and he also built the Cameo Theater, which he owned for a
number of years! Brian told him of living in Temple City and riding his bicycle
down Las Tunas to Main St to Garfield to Commonwealth to Stockbridge where my
parents still lived. Brian and Cliff really bonded. Cliff told him he would give
Brian all his insurance business and he'd tell his family to come see Brian too!

What a small world!

The former El Sereno Masonic Lodge #588 (now a Hispanic school) where I was a Job's Daughter, my Mom in Eastern Star, and Daddy was Master.

The former Cameo Theater:

"This neighborhood theater was in the El Sereno district of the City of Los
Angeles. About 1970, when it began running Spanish language movies, the name was
altered from Cameo to El Cameo, probably to distinguish it from the Cameo
Theater on Broadway in downtown L.A. which was also showing Spanish language
movies by that time. It housed a furniture company into the mid-2000’s, and by
2009 was in use as a discount store."

For dinner last night I sauteéd some asparagus and more mushrooms and added
that to the orange chicken/rice/peas dinner from the night before....

Off to see the allergist today for some tests .. stop in Providence
Hospital to visit with my friend Joanie who will be there a few more days for an
infection she got after falling and breaking her collar bone then the surgical
spot infected ... Brian picking up the granddog, Atlas, today ...